Tuesdays Gone...

So we went to see Leah's lawyer after work... can't comment... total publication ban. Will write more when the ban is lifted. Anyways we decided to get some gas $1.36 a litre. Thought that was a little steep but whatever. Gotta do what you gotta do.
Went to Ristys for dinner. Leah had sushi, I had burger and fries. Bill was $14.00, pretty cheap for burger and a bento box. Drove to superstore after. Bought some groceries... en route back home I looked at the price of gas at the Husky and low and behold it dropped to... $1.26 a litre.Feel somewhat robbed. If only I waited that hour. Oh well... waddya do. Bitch about it I suppose ;)
Jammed with jungletown today. Played some songs off our set just to stay current. Took a break then worked on our new song "war child" again. Its shaping up to be a gooder...went back to another new song we haven't played since before Mike's accident, called Illegal Dumping. Its also a gooder. Jungletown 2.0 (a.k.a new songs weve written lately cause they dont really resemble older songs) Came home, now I'm hanging out my lovely lady Leah. Good night all.

another usual monday

was just about to start writing... had a sniff... smells like one of my neighbours is smoking the weed. No big deal, its vancouver and that'll happen sometimes. Busy day at work, something like 19 windshields and 7 rock chips at the airport alone... we had help, rick and johnson came out to help.  Thats all im gonna talk about work, this isnt designed to be a bitch fest about work. Was watching the TV after work. there was a advetisement for a show called "toddlers and tiaras" WTF is this world coming to. What a waste of time show is that. No better than Jersey Shore but at least Jersey Shore cast is old enough to make their own decisions.
Had tacos for dinner again...yummmmm! Bathed our dogs today because its been a while since they were bathed and they sorta were stinky from being at the lake and such... that'll happen but now they smell like whatever the dogs shampoo smell like. (i dont really pay attention to that type of stuff all the time).
We have a garbage transfer station down the road from us... well maybe 5 block down... anyways it stinks Cache Creek garbage dump in my house at the moment... pretty gross...
Nothing else to contribute today, dont really remember anything cool happening today. Au revoir!

weekend and such...

Ah the weekend was full of bliss... heres some examples...
at work in friday i got a call from my ear/throat/nose doctor that i went to cause i had a really lame hum in my right ear. She booked me a MRI and sent me on my way, this was back in february. So about 3 weeks ago i had my MRI and friday i got my results. Aparently there is nothing out of the ordinary up there. So no tumors... YAY for that.
Got off work and drove to Surrey to Grandpa and Gramma Bennett house to pick up Tyler (Leahs cousin from Australia). We traded Molly and Sophie for Tyler and we were on our way to Bench Campground at Deer Lake. We met up with some of Leahs cousins Theresa, Kim, and Oliver and Theresa's children Ben and Morgan. Also Leahs uncle Ron and step aunt Donna and their dog sam were there too.  Got there around 7pm...ish and set up camp... started drinking.
Woke up in the morning had some breakfast, then relaxed for a bit and went to the Hicks lake. Lake was pretty damn cold... on the way in anyways, after you got in though it was pretty refreshing.  Stayed by the lake for most of the afternoon. Went back to the camp when more of Leahs family (Aunty Sandy, Uncle Randy, their dogs Lucy and Peanut) came to the lake and our dogs were there, G&G brought them up along with Mike and his chain saw...
We had no wood so we went up to the logging road and went up the mountain a bit and bucked down a few trees for fire wood... had to do that twice becaused we figured we didnt have enough wood. Lucky we did too cause in the morning on sunday there was about 4 logs on the pile. For dinner the group had baked salmon potatoes veggies etc... also there was smoked salmon floating around too. I eat salmon all the time so i was content with camp fire'd hotdogs... yes sir i love me hotdogs whilst camping.   Ended up staying up late, injesting lots of booze. Was good times
Woke up sunday feeling ok, had an egg and two pieces of bacon. Packed up our area of camp, loaded the car, and left. took Mike back to Chilliwack,, went back to Surrey picked up Molly and Sophie. G&G fed us tacos... (hmmmmm) and came home. Now were chilling at home relaxing on the couch...

jiggity-jams

Got off work today, went to Costco, bought some items... then came home, had some amazing home made pizza made by Leah. Superb... went to jams today. First jam in about two weeks with all members. Was good, we breezed through out list of songs, played new one at the end... mentioned in earlier posts... "war child" was worked on and finalized. That song has lots of potential.
A guy whom has a recording studio within the same place that houses our jam space heard us playing. He had some good things to say about us. Telling us we sound heavier and grungier... Sounds good to me, thats awesome. Any good comments is good enough for me. Anyways, tomorrow im leaving the city for the lake, its camping time with Leah's assorted members of family.   Wont be posting anything until monday or something like that. See ya all later....

Keck

Its payday eve,  weehoo...

Went to the gym today, did cardio for 15 minutes, then worked on abs, then chest, then tricepts... for another 15 minutes. Wow, that comment makes me sound like a muscle builder or something like that... not likely, just trying for a healthier way. I can forsee tomorrow being a little sore as i feel sore now.

Thought about bringing back a song from my past, i'm pretty sure i wrote the guitar parts for it. Its called Keck. Used to play it back in grade 10 in a band called Undersleeve. I can always bring back the guitar part and make everything new. Sounds like a plan, just gotta make sure i can use that riff... gotta ask Greg Petty or Casey Ladoski, the other former members of Undersleeve.
Nothing else cool happened today... that i can remember anyways...

more windscreens and kinesiology home work

Me and Cory "pounded out" (classic windshield slinger saying) with then help of fellow speedy glasser Ray, 23 windshields and a rock chip today... between three contracts at the airport (Avis-Budget Group, Dollar Thrifty and Hertz. It took us 10.5 hours to do it, but we did it. Came home at 6pm and went to McDonalds... yup, had to do it. then helped Leah with her kinesiology home work. Nothing else happened on this 22nd of August, 2011. Weather was nice. 
Was suppose to jam with Jungletown, but got cancelled. That happens from time to time. We have this agreement that if one person doesn't want to jam, its cool and theres no sense getting mad cause its only jams... Taking our band not to serious helps us lots, cause there's no stress involved.

Forgot to talk about the death of a few people, about a week ago a good friends of the family died. Alec Walters. Him along with his wife gave me this teddy bear... actually its a mouse called mousey. I got this mousey bear when i was a wee lad, dont quite remember when i got it, but i believe i must have been 1 or so. I remember spending plenty of time at their house growing up, watching Top Gun everytime we were there. Have plenty of memories goint to their house. He will be missed... R.I.P Mr Walters.
The other, i didnt know him at all, but he i liked his charasma... Mr Jack Layton. I did not vote for his party, although i thought about it long and hard, but the NDP fu... umm errr... rhymes with pucked... BC back in the 90's. im sure its a different party and all that but i was weary. I ended up voting for the ************ party... like im gonna share with the internet whom i voted for. I liked how he did get the official opposition though. He was on the way to getting my vote within the next couple years. Anyways the news says that he was voted most likely to enjoy having a beer with in a contest out of all the politicians in Canada... RIP Mr Layton.
Thats it for today, hope you had a enjoyable read. 10-4 over and out.

dinners in surrey with the bennetts and first day or work...

First day back installing windscreens for speedy glass in about a week. Wasnt to bad, it was raining like the dickens and the avis lot was full. It get hard to sling windscreens when its raining. Moving cars to get to cars is a pain in the ass too but that didnt happen today. Normally when its raining we have to work in side one at a time type stuff cause rain doesnt work well with the urethane....Wasnt to much to do so that was good. Did two rock chip repairs and three windshield replacments. Pretty quiet for a monday since lately we (me and Cory) have been working hard to sling 10 to 12 per day pretty much everyday...

After super fun time (work) [its a that 70's show quote], drove with molly and sophie, my two little terriers, to Grandpa and Grandma Bennetts house in Delta. I found it all by myself.  Leah was coming from another direction with another car cause her cousin Kim was borrowing our borrowed car.
we had all kinds of salad. Mostly gluten free. Oh yeah, and Theresa's salad was good mmmmmmm! in fact they were all good.
We had to discuss the camping trip to Hicks Lake thats set to happen this weekend. Finally going camping, might take the rod out and see if i can get in a few casts... :)

the last day of vacation in August... and a 40th wedding anniversary

sadly tis my last day of vacation today. Have done some ok stuff, nothing major, but that'll happen sometimes. The most important part is that i was away from work for 10 whole days, relaxing. Either relaxing on the couch at home, or in ashcroft for a few days. The moral of the story was to relax, and relax is what i did. So what if of didnt go to mexico or anyplace like that. The next set of holidays are going to be spent in Hawaii, so screw you mexico.

At noon i met mike at our rehearsal space. we jammed for a bit, switched up instruments and played the drums for a bit. Was good to play the guitar and drums for the first time in about a week and a bit. Lookin forward to tuesdays jams. We listened to a demo that we recorded earlier in the month called "war child", its really good, got lots of potential. Cant wait to record it.

Today is my mom and dads 40th wedding anniversary, yup thats right folks 40 years. It can be done. Most marriages last what... 5 to 10 years these days. Only a handful of people get it right at stay together for damn near ever. So to that i say congratulations to you both. An amazing feat from todays standards... 40 years. Thats awesome, way to go guys. :)

This is my parents 40 years ago on their wedding day...

and this is a shot of them in Campbell River BC, at Grandma DeCraene's house May 2012.

chainsaws at soccer games...

written for Friday, August 19th, 2011
So I was watching the tv and I noticed that in portland during mls games, dudes with chainsaws act like cheerleaders... don't know what to think of that.
Gave three vials of blood today at bc biomedical labs on cambie and 41st, in Vancouver. They gave me instructions for gathering of specimans at home... yay for that. Ill spare the deets cause i dont feel like sharing that type of information.
Went to the gym this afternoon. Only for 30 minutes but I killed 338 calories. About average for a 30 minute elliptical excerise. Good times

rocking a mosey in vancouver/burnaby

Went to the doctors office today cause i have had this issue with my stomach for a good part of my life. When i was a kid, i went to a naturopath and he had me on like 9 pills a day. I took them and it went away within time... but it's came back the last few years. Some call it a nervous stomach, others call it IBS, (i think they are the same thing acutally).  I think that stress has something to do with it... damn you stress... anyways, i get to go and get blood work done; prolly tomorrow. Sounds like good times to finally get this shit dealt with... no pun intended.
For dinner we had homemade pizza... hmmmm good stuff. Not even close to dominos, or pizza hut but its healthier, had pepperoni.
Havent seen the inside of a gym in about a week, getting the itch to go soon. Normally go 3 times a week, same with jamming with my band. Normally tuesdays, thursdays and sundays. Our drummer Mike was involved in a car crash a little while so he's been on light duty since then. So we've scaled back jams to once a week or whatever, no big deal. Better to be healthy then not. The guys gotta heal, it's all good. Plus i've been on vacation from everything lately. Getting the itch to get back on the ole bass though.

Stocks market... what shall we say, holy hanna. Seems like a shit storm, the DJIA (new york) is down 365.17 points to end at 11,045.04, and the TSX (toronto) is down 248.52 points to end the day at 12,331.09. not really sure what that mean, i am learning a little here and there. But i see that the only think in the plus again is gold. c'est la vie

ICBC... what the fu... na. ill get in that rant at a later date... (but its coming and its gonna be a good one)

a day with Leah and some of her healthcare team

Went downtown with Leah today to Coal Harbour Massage Therapy for her massage therapy appointment. The owner almost got me a free massage but the slot was quickly booked by someone else, was the thought that counts though. Saw the new BC place stadium, thought that was pretty neat. The below photo is of the BC Place... Came back home and went to Performax Health Group in Burnaby. Watched as she got Prolotherapy and then when that was done she had Physiotherapy. After that we went to the superstore and bought groceries...around $114.00 worth. For fun I looked at the HST portion... and not to my amazement.... $2.01. yup thats right. 2 dollars worth of tax for over a hundred dollars of groceries. Thats what happens when you dont buy shit, and buy healthier foods...

this and that and seven degrees of bacon

Came back to Vancouver today. Ashcroft was fun, but it was time to get back to the city. Plus Leah had to go to a kinesiology appointment. The trip was good, traffic was at a bare minimum. Just some summertime road construction, and some BS in chilliwack that the radio called road work but it was really just a guy sitting in his truck on the side of the road. But he had the lane blocked off for about 150 metres, so that caused a back up... thanks for that delay sir.
On a little more interesting note, i found out yesterday that my Aunt Shirley Plautz husband , my Uncle Garry's brothers wife's mother is married to the Bacon brothers grandfather. Not everyday do you find out that you have seven degrees of separation with gangsters. Suppose that'll happen.

more village times...

Man its nice to be on a weeks vacation... Still in the village, relaxing most if the day away, sounds like a perfect way to start a one week vacation from work. Going to go to my cousins house (two doors down from my folks house)  for an afternoon swim. Temperature in Ashcroft (high of 27degrees C) not to bad for the village. normally its around the mid to high 30 degrees C but what can you do?
Visiting with Blake, my brother, and my niece Emma. they came down from Kamloops yesterday. ... its been decided, going swimming right now, might contribute more later...

hanging out in the village...

First post:
Woke up today feeling pretty tired, that'll happen when you go to a wedding and come home at 2:00am when you used to going to bed at 10:00pm. Thats right, the older you get the earlier you go to bed. No more going out consistantly on friday, saturday nights. hitting up the booze. Now adays its watching TV or doing laundry and going to bed at 10:00pm... is that lame or just the way it goes the older you get.  ramblings...
Went to Candace and Greg Pigeons wedding yesterday. T'was good to see people I havent seen in ages, and to meet new people. Wedding took place at Hi-Hium Lake Fishing Resort, and the reception took place at the Clinton Town Hall in Clinton BC.